As we draw to the end of another year I am pleased to not follow the blogging trend and publish a Christmas gift guide on my website.
Amongst the Christmas cheer and wrapping paper i would rather see an array of books and warm clothes rather than plastic toys that warrant bounding us inside the house all day.
Since spring I have been writing about my garden and sharing posts of fresh air and sunshine with my readers. I have also had some fantastic opportunities to copy write articles for gardening companies. And of course who can forget the publicity that my she shed brought to my lovely little blog.read more

I have been making pancakes for Olivia ever since she could chew! At first we stuck with the healthy raisin variety sweetened with cinnamon but these days if we have pancakes we go for the full on vanilla flavoring and syrup variety. Very naughty but great fun! We use shapes to cut stars into our pancakes and add banana and raisins.

We love to eat a soft boiled egg (dippy eggs) as Olivia likes to call it and we all have our own novelty egg cups. Mine is hand made with love hearts which I painted at a clay studio, Marks is a novelty Heinz egg cup and Olivia has a big red London bus! It is so cute that I like to display it on the dresser when she’s not using it.read more

Shrove Tuesday (known in some countries as Pancake Day) is a day in February or March, preceding Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent), which is celebrated in some countries by consuming pancakes.
We are partial to the odd pancake and you can catch our recipe here!

Shrove Tuesday, a moveable feast, is determined by Easter. The expression “Shrove Tuesday” comes from the word shrive, meaning “confess”. Shrove Tuesday is observed by many Christians, including Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Roman Catholics who “make a special point of self-examination, of considering what wrongs they need to repent, and what amendments of life or areas of spiritual growth they especially need to ask God’s help in dealing with.read more